 The new appointments were made under a writ which ran, "We will and require you to elect" (a named person).When James II sought to withdraw from his disastrous policy, he issued a proclamation restoring to the boroughs their ancient charters.The governing charter thenceforth in many boroughs, though not in all, was the charter which had established a close corporation, and from this time on to 1835 the boroughs made no progress in constitutional growth.